Well Bora and I and our 30+ judges managed to sort through the nearly 500 submissions and find our 53 winners. Some of use used the stairs methods to assign grades and others programed complex random number machines, while a few decided to read the 450+ submissions.
To mark this event I’ve produced three different badges: for winners, for judges, and for cool people. You can see the badges and download them below.
2007 150px:
<a href="http://www.lulu.com/coturnix1" rel="external"> <img src="http://scit.us/openlab/openlab07-150.png" width="150" height="94" alt="Openlab 2007" title="The Best Science Writing on Blogs 2007" /></a>
<a href="http://www.lulu.com/coturnix1" rel="external"> <img src="http://scit.us/openlab/openlab07-winner-150.png" width="150" height="94" alt="Openlab 2007" title="The Best Science Writing on Blogs 2007" /></a>
<a href="http://www.lulu.com/coturnix1" rel="external"> <img src="http://scit.us/openlab/openlab07-judge-150.png" width="150" height="94" alt="Openlab 2007" title="The Best Science Writing on Blogs 2007" /></a>
2007 100px:
<a href="http://www.lulu.com/coturnix1" rel="external"> <img src="http://scit.us/openlab/openlab07-100.png" width="100" height="63" alt="Openlab 2007" title="The Best Science Writing on Blogs 2007" /></a>
<a href="http://www.lulu.com/coturnix1" rel="external"> <img src="http://scit.us/openlab/openlab07-winner-100.png" width="100" height="63" alt="Openlab 2007" title="The Best Science Writing on Blogs 2007" /></a>
<a href="http://www.lulu.com/coturnix1" rel="external"> <img src="http://scit.us/openlab/openlab07-judge-100.png" width="100" height="63" alt="Openlab 2007" title="The Best Science Writing on Blogs 2007" /></a>
